What killed your faith in game journalism?
I honestly never paid attention to themStill dont pretty muchI just watch the game trailers and leave my thoughts at that unless im interested enough
Journalists have always been subhuman retards. They just share their shitty ass opinions more today than simply reporting.
Need a good youtube video that just tears into the stealth system in these games. Todd Howard's games have the worst stealth which is weird considering a lot of other Bethesda games do it right. You can't choke people out I don't get it these games rely on cheap tricks for the stealth to work like invisibility tech/abilities and what not.
>>7379934075 guys.
I never had much faith in it to begin with, but the two main catalysts for me were Gone Home and Bioshock Infinite.
Today I will remind them.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yYp8ZeQ-I8
Starfield NPCs just had extremely overtuned awareness that let them spot your ass with ease, even if you had invested all 4 ranks in to maxxing out that Stealth skill.of course you can handwave this by saying "they have sensor modules built into their space helmets" which begs the question of why there aren't stealth accessories to fuck with sensors?
>>737993847>>737994231no one cares about shitty stealth in shitty slop games retard
>>737993407Seanbaby leaving EGM
>>737994145>Comments are turned off
>>737993407when they were all caught lying about their connections and being on the same mailing list back in the burgers and fries days. that also seriously hurt my trust in normal media too because they covered it on NPR and either NPR or the bbc which was then played on NPR interviewed some guy and then asked him the same question like 7 times and then basically asked him to say something and then cut out half of his answer so they could get the sound clip they wanted to play on the radio and then he posted the whole interview on his youtube channel and the thing they had him say on NPR was completely out of context and the opposite of what he was actually saying and that's why I primarily get my news from /pol/ leaks on other boards
>>737993407Gamer Gate
>>737993407Critical consensus was that the game was incredibly mediocre, and it was.
>>737993407The event that split the site and lead to Moot cucking for the final time.
When my law professor used journalist as a pejorative.
>>737994145Imagine if all game journalist were required to show their gameplay for reviews.
>>737993407Bioshock Infinite 13 years ago.
The biggest problem with journos is that they don't face any consequencesthey can blatantly lie, but who is going to hold them accountable? when the game becomes a massive failure and it's obvious that the journos lied, they're already acting like nothing happened reviewing something else and getting paid to lie
The kind of person who becomes a video game journalist is not a serious person and should never be taken seriously with anything. I have more respect for neets than I do vidya journalists, what a pathetic "career"
>>737993407You had this thread yesterday
>>737993407God Hand
>>737993407the game is objectively an 8/10, so those journalists are close to the truth than the discord trannies of /v/
>>737993407The earliest moment I can think of is playing Nier in 2010 and laughing at the IGN review, but I never paid that much attention to them really.
>>737993407Zoe Quinn sleeping with that beta cuck Nathan Grayson for positive reviews on her shitty text game that started GamerGate. And she still hasn't worked on the Chuck Tingle Kickstarter game yet.
>>737993407The game critic reception to Gone Homo and Bioshock infinite shortly thereafter. If you're only going to use your position to help your gay friends sell 20 copies of 4-minute games and you can't tell what makes a bioshock game good then I have no use for you.
>>737993407E33 getting good reviews
>>737993407pokemon mystery dungeon
>>737993407I haven't used a single game journalist review as a basis for figuring out whether or not I should get a game for close to 20 years now. Even back when I used to buy and read gaming magazines (like PSM), I didn't even read them for reviews. I read them for news or for sexy images (because back then, in the pre-woke days, gaming journalists didn't have any problem with female sex appeal).Back then, in the pre-YouTube days, I didn't use their reviews because they simply didn't ever go deep enough. I'd just go to gaming forums and ask people what they thought about specific games I'm interested in. Of course, over the years, I learned more and more about how either corrupt or hypocritical they tended to be. Nowadays, either I use forums (like I ask /v/ or /vr/ or, if there's a general dedicated to it, /vg/ about specific games and try to find out as much as I can about the game I'm interested in from people who have deep-dived into the games).
>>737993407The fact that starfield got low scores from journalists shows they're retarded and working towards their own agenda. Kill all journaists, starfield is game of the generation.
>>737993407It must prove how impotent and incompetent journalists are when they tried to attack starfield for hurting their pet trannies and then losing because it went on to become the best selling game of the generation.
>>737996174>troons and gays being living social weapons that find themselves tied up into the highest echelons of glownig societyReally makes you think
My trust in gaming journalism has been on death's door for a long time, but Rise of the Ronin getting the same 7/10 score on IGN that they also gave to garbage like Dustborn, The Callisto Protocol and Fallout 76 was the final nail in the coffin for me.
>>737993407Gamergate
journalists lmaohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNDjJ_suBg4
>>737997656>moving and aiming at the same time causes this person visible trouble>has to stop to aim well, and keep the camera steady to moveGrim.
>>737997783I'm like that whenever I have to play an FPS with a controller.
>>737997656Game journalists want to be taken seriously. Yet gaming news companies never bother to create any sort of accreditation organizations to ensure that journalists have basic levels of required competency. Imagine if someone who wants to professionally review FPS titles for news outlets was required to get a certification to prove that he can do basic shit like moving and shooting at the same time. It seems ridiculous at first that I'm proposing something like this, but considering how many gaming journalists fail this basic bar, I feel like it's absolutely necessary.
>>737993407I never really had any faith in them, but all of them rushing to defend Mass Effect 3 was a wake up call that they were all evil.
>>737993407When Gears of War came out, I decided to use it as a test to see whether the game journos had actually turned into western AAA shills. That didn't look like a 9/10 game to me. A 9/10 is a true classic like Diablo 2, Super Mario World, etc. Even if you don't like the genre, you can tell that you're playing something special.It was really boring. Just run forward, find the next bit of cover, and shoot. Corridor shooter movie game slop. I haven't trusted a game journo review score since. Everything that I've seen since then shows me that they've gotten worse, not better.
>>737993407Dragon age 2 was the big eye opener.They’ve never been great outside the magazine ones that allowed banter, but DA2 was fucking awful and nobody mentioned all the myriad ways it was a colossal downgrade.
>>737993407When elden goyslop was astroturfed hard into being "good" after receiving mixed reviews at launch
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>>737994067>all the drama surrounding that shit permanently wrecked this site
>>737996314Sure does
>>738000196TAKE ME BACK
>>737993407when PSM unofficial sold-out to Sony.
>>737999972Thus
>>737993407I only ever visited the likes of GameSpot for news and read reviews out of curiosity or entertainment to begin with, don't think I've ever been directly influenced to buy or not buy anything by a professional review. That said step one was >>738000196, step two was the whole "gamers are dead" thing and similar concerted efforts to conspicuously push some narrative.
>early 2000s>flip through the pages of a gaming mag at the corner store>they give some game a good score and hyped it>buy game and don't like it at allsimple as. don't even remember the game, pretty sure the reviewer wasn't a shill and just had different tastes than me, still made me ignore review scores from that very moment.
>>737993407Spore back in the day. Everyone has to learn sometime.
>>737993407Mass Effect 3's copy-pasta reviews being posted in every godforsaken video-game site/blog/etc. on the internet, even the ones about japanese games.
>>737993407/v/
Bioshock Infinite, and the whole, "bashing Nintendo over the 3DS" era
